Hong Fanwu was a pioneer in the modern library science. East China Normal Universityheld a symposium commemorating the 130th anniversary of Hong Fanwu’s birth on November 22, 2023.This paper extracts the key viewpoints from the symposium, delves into Hong Fanwu’s life by integratingrelevant historical materials, highlights his significant contributions to the library profession and research,and specifically explores the modern library science viewpoints embedded in Mr. Hong’s work LibraryOrganization and Management. Additionally, the paper explores the inspiration provided by his work forthe theory and practices of libraries in the era of information intelligence.

Hong Fanwu is one of the founding figures of modern library science in China. This paperbegins with his book Library Organization and Management and employs citation content analysisto explore the far-reaching impact of his library science thoughts on library science in China. LibraryOrganization and Management attaches equal importance to historical data value and theoretical value,has been mainly cited in library history research, and has far-reaching influence. What are cited mostlyin argument and as inspiration are mainly library science theories. They are mainly based on objectiveanalysis and explanation, whereas some are positive evaluation. Its cited themes include library sciencetheory, library business, and library philosophy, which respectively reflect Hong Fanwu’s localizationthoughts, theory-to-practice thoughts, and people-oriented values. This is of great significance to theconstruction of library science with Chinese characteristics, the development of librarianship, andresponsible innovation of libraries.

Since the launch of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, theinternational library community has been calling on the libraries to take actions to contribute to sustainabledevelopment. Responsible innovation may provide a systematic guide for libraries to help them realizethe SDGs and achieve self-innovation. This article examines the interrelationship between libraries,SDGs and responsible innovation at both the theoretical and practical levels. On this basis, the authorsidentify three basic elements of responsible innovation in libraries: ethical normativity, developmentalpermanence, and user participation. The article explores how libraries can accelerate sustainable businesstransformation and service innovation with the help of cases of responsible innovation in libraries.

As a rule for the use of copyright works in this industry initiated by libraries, “ControlledDigital Lending (CDL)” demonstrates the initiative efforts of American library community to create rulesfor the use of copyright works based on the DMCA framework. There are three motivations for creatingCDL: significance to digital transformation of library, copyright restrictions on the utilization of digitalresources, and the hindrance facing the large-scale digitization process when library cooperates with theInternet service providers. The localization CDL in Chinese libraries can seek legitimacy paths from bothlegal and market perspectives. In this process, the library industry needs to adopt corresponding responsestrategies based on the characteristics of industry development.

Content and carrier are important criteria for classifying resource types and are of greatsignificance for identifying resources. RDA attaches great importance to the division of resource contentand carrier type. On the basis of inheriting the original rules, the new RDA emphasizes the compilationbasis of RDA content and carrier type terms, expands the resource content and carrier type, adds the“extension plan” element, clarifies the method and process of submitting new content and carrier typeterms in RDA, and highlights the scalability of RDA.

With the continuous improvement of China’s network infrastructure, audiovisual media hasgained significant popularity among the younger generation, posing challenges for libraries primarilyfocused on textual resources. This study aims to explore the current status of audiovisual resourcecollections construction in domestic and international university libraries. Taking inspiration fromthe successful experiences of the IIIF specification in managing image resources and the practices ofvarious audiovisual preservation communities, this research proposes a method for audiovisual resourcemanagement in Chinese university libraries based on the IIIF A/V and open-source software. An empiricalstudy is conducted by analyzing the practices of audiovisual resource preservation, streaming mediapublication, timeline bubble annotation, transcription, audiovisual structuring, and open sharing at EastChina Normal University Library.

Based on the “path-target” theoretical framework, this paper takes 38 districts and countiesin Chongqing as cases, and uses the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method toexplore the linkage effect of leadership, residents and environment on the construction performance ofscholarly cities. The results show that: (1)The single factor of leaders, residents and environment does notconstitute the necessary conditions for high construction performance. (2) There are four driving paths forhigh-level construction performance: resident leading, environmental support, collaborative promotionand administrative mobilization. Resident factors play a universal role in the configuration of highlevelconstruction performance. (3) The effective combination of all factors improves the constructionperformance in a way that leads to the same destination, and there are complementary effects undercertain conditions. In short, multi-case study show that the construction of scholarly city is not “the onlypath”, nor is it the privilage of developed cities. Underdeveloped areas can also succeed as long as theyfind the right direction and make precise efforts.

Reading promotion of special collections is a challenging part of library work. The practiceof reading promotion of local historical documents in the collection of Shanghai Jiao Tong Universityshows that the combination of bibliographic interpretation and digitization construction is able to realizethe in-depth excavation of the document content and expand the scope of reading promotion. Chinesetraditional education culture, traditional Chinese medicine culture and red culture are all effectivein reading promotion. The combination of venue exhibitions and cultural activities with the use ofnew media also builds a new path of reading promotion services, opening up a new space for culturaleducation in colleges and universities.

The paper introduces some of the author’s insights on library science and philology duringhis visit to various cultural relics exhibitions at the British Museum in August 2019. It is divided into eightaspects: stone tablet literature, Papyrus literature, wooden slips literature, ancient literature and characters,special carriers of ancient literature, display of classic literature, ancient reading and promotion, andliterature from Central and South Asia and East Asia. Corresponding photos and many case studies areprovided.

From the perspective of digital humanities, ancient poetry resources are of great value butdifficult to be analyzed at scale. The research on the automatic construction method of knowledge base ofancient poetry is conducive to the analysis and research of ancient poetry from a macro perspective and themining of its value. Firstly, based on the concept of “object image”, the key information in ancient poemsis extracted to reduce the complexity of analysis to build an automated process. Secondly, roberta-BilstMCRFmodel is constructed based on deep learning method, and object image is extracted from ancient poetrycorpus. Then, The Whole Tang Dynasty Poems and some Song Dynasty poetry resources are used to verifythe feasibility and universality of the model. Finally, the object image database of The Whole Tang DynastyPoems is constructed successfully, and the distribution law of the object images is preliminarily analyzed.After using the automatic tagging corpus training model, the F1 scores of common nouns, time nounsand place names reached 89.6%, 93.3% and 93.6% respectively. The model was transferred to the SongDynasty poetry corpus that was not used for training, and the extraction density was 4.5 objects per poem,which showed the ability to discover unknown words, indicating that the model has good universality andexpansibility.

construction status, characteristics, prototype system, problems and application prospects offarming image knowledge organization in the digital era, which provides reference for a new paradigmof farming image research. By using literature research and case study, it summarizes the typical imagerepositories at home and abroad, and combining the characteristics of farming images, thus proposes afour-layer prototype system for farming image knowledge organization. The prototype system reveals therealization path of resource processing layer, image annotation layer, data association layer, and applicationservice layer of ancient Chinese farming images. At the same time, this paper also proposes the key issues tobe solved in the knowledge organization of farming images, and looks at its prospective application value, inorder to provide reference for related cultural heritage and digital humanities projects.

Solving increasingly frequent and complex public crises need crisis information managementprofessionals. iSchools in North America have rich experience and a mature system of training talentsin crisis information management, which can provide reference for Chinese iSchools to implementcrisis informatics instructions. This paper reviewed existing studies in the literature, investigated onlineinformation provided by iSchools in North America, summarized the crisis informatics course model ofiSchools in North America, and analyzed its instruction system from the following perspectives: teachingobjectives, course content, instruction mechanisms, course outcomes, human resources in teaching, andgraduate employment rate. Given the demand for crisis information management talents in China and thelack of relative education mechanism, this paper proposes suggestions such as seizing the opportunity ofdiscipline reform and implementing crisis information management instruction, overcoming disciplinarybarriers and promoting the cooperation of multiple stakeholders, responding to multi-dimensional needs,enriching the education system and teaching forms, paying attention to the combination of theories andpractices, and establishing a comprehensive teaching and outcomes assessment mechanism.

In the past, it was generally believed that the Jingshi Library (1909—1928) had preservedthree editions of rare books catalog. In fact, the librarians, namely Miao Quansun, Wang Maorong, JiangHan, Xia Zengyou, Zhang Zongxiang and Shi Xiyong, had compiled six editions of rare books which asa model for compiling public collections of rare books in modern times. Based on historical records andinvestigations into existing manuscript copies, this article divides the process of cataloging at the JingshiLibrary into three periods: the embryonic stage, the concise catalog stage and the rare book catalog stage.It also amplifies the three rare book catalog editions compiled by Wang Maorong, Zhang Zongxiang andShi Xiyong. The practice of compiling rare book catalogs at the Jingshi Library reflects the process oftransferring modern collection from private to public and standardizing rare book cataloging. It also set aprecedent for public library compiling rare book catalogs. These historical catalogs record the historicalappearance of ancient books and the early cataloging achievements of the national library, leaving six“historical archives” of rare books in the collection of the Jingshi Library. These archives can provideimportant evidence for investigating the whereabouts of the rare books in the Jingshi Library.

The manuscript Maoyuan Diary collected by the National Library of China was written inthe second year of Jiaqing and the author was described as “Maoyuan Scholar”. The characters, locationsand events mentioned in the diary were related to Jiading and Suzhou. Referring to the poetry collections,local chronicles and biographical materials, the author of this diary can be verified as Yan Yu, a scholarfrom Jiading who lived in Shantang, Suzhou. Yan Yu was skilled in painting landscapes and had deepfriendship with Qian Daxin, Wang Chang, Yuan Tingtao and Ren Zhaolin. The diary reflects the real lifeof Suzhou during the Qianjia period in Qing dynasty and the daily creative process of the Loudong Schoolof Painting in the Qing Dynasty